Today I had some trouble getting a normally simple thing to work in an AX form. The form consists of to synchronized grids, and the user wanted an "Export to Excel" command button, so the active grid can be exported to Excel. Normally this is very simple as you just need to add a command button to the form in the ActionPane somewhere and you're home free. Not this time. It didn't work. I googled and found this: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/emeadaxsupport/archive/2009/09/07/how-does-the-export-to-excel-feature-work-under-the-hood.aspx and put a breakpoint in the performPushAndFormatting method. I didn't reach my breakpoint and Excel didn't even start. Then I started to investigate the form. Maybe the tables of the datasources of the form had some obscure property that needed tweaking, but no. After pondering this for a while I found that the designer of the form had dropped a field group containing all the fields in the grid. Could that be the pro
My thoughts on Dynamics AX application development. I have been working as a consultant with Microsoft ERP-technology since 1994. Currently I work at Optimate A/S. My main focus is customization and application development. This blog is merely my place to put stuff that I want to remember. If anybody can benefit from reading this, that's great :0). Feel free to use any code snippets posted - but accept that you do this at your own risk!!!